MP-HA: Multicycles Protocol for Hospital Automation over multicast with IEEE 802.3

Author

de M Valentim, R.A. ; Morais, Antônio H F ; Guerreiro, Ana M G ; Branddo, G.B. ; De Ara, Carlos A Paz

Author_Institution

Rio Grande do Norte (CEFET-RN), Fed. Center of Technol. Educ., Rio Grande

fYear

2008

fDate

13-16 July 2008

Firstpage

979

Lastpage

984

Abstract

This paper presents a multicycles protocol for hospital automation (MP-HA) that works over multicast addressing and use a master-slave architecture. The protocol creates a segmented logical network based on multicast addressing associated to hospital beds. The objective of MP-HA is to ensure the determinism on network through medium access control mechanism increasing the transmission throughput. Thus, it creates a periodical environment making use of the parallel cycles which is called multicycles.

Keywords

access protocols; health care; local area networks; medical administrative data processing; multicast protocols; Ethernet; IEEE 802.3; hospital automation; hospital beds; master-slave architecture; medium access control; multicast addressing; multicycle protocol; segmented logical network; transmission throughput; Access protocols; Automation; Costs; Ethernet networks; Hospitals; Industrial control; Multicast protocols; Process control; Springs; Time division multiple access;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial Informatics, 2008. INDIN 2008. 6th IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Daejeon

ISSN

1935-4576

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2170-1

Electronic_ISBN

1935-4576

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/INDIN.2008.4618244

Filename

4618244